Shakespeare's Landlord: A Lily Bard Mystery
Format: kindle
ISBN:
9781409149668
Publish date: July 4th 2013
Publisher: Orion
Pages no: 240
Edition language: English
Series: Lily Bard Mysteries (#1)
With Ms Harris starting a new series I thought it was time to go back and re-read some of her earlier works to see if they stood the test of time. Of course they did! In this, the first, of the Lily Bard Mysteries series we are introduced to Lily, a woman who a horrible past who is doing her best ...
My review of the book can be found here. Charlaine Harris' Lily Bard series is the only one of her works I really like. There's just something about Lily and her town that seems very real to me and the mysteries are all very good. It still saddens me there are only five of these. For the basics ...
It turns out that you can no more judge a book by its title than by its cover. I'd been put off reading the Lily Bard books because the combination of Lily Bard and the word "Shakespeare" in the title of each novel reminded me of the twee and sugar-coated Aurora Teagarden books, which I had not en...
I started Lily Bard series, because I loved the Aurora Teagarden series. Lovable characters all around, great stories and a good development of the characters throughout the six books the series entails. I'm sort of disappointed however with the first book. In this genre, cozy crime that is, you r...
Critically, the Mystery bookends: murder at opening, closed at ending. Nothing in between. However, Harris's thoroughly great characterisation of Lily Bard, artfully demonstrating the effects of a traumatic past - her bloody and brutal gang rape - on her present. How she was able to leave her family...
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